Art Appreciation Unit 2 Review

The design by I. Michael Interior Design creates ________ and interesting composition by using a balance of curved and straight lines.

A Harmonious

If an artist painted a garden with one red flower in a field of yellow flowers, this would be an example of using color to create contrast. For the viewer, the single red flower would be ________.

A focal point in the artwork

A pattern with regular intervals creates ________ rhythm.

A repetetive

________ balance is achieved when two halves of a composition are not mirror images of each other.

Asymmetrical

On the island of Belau in the western Pacific, a traditional men's long house is called a ________.

Bai

Creating visual weight and counterweight is part of an artist's use of the element of ________ in creating a work of art.

Balance

Artemisia Gentileschi used directional line brilliantly in her painting Judith Decapitating Holofernes to draw our attention to this point:

Blood spurting from Holofernes Neck

Katsushika Hokusai, in his woodcut "The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa," simplified and ordered the visual elements in the work to create ________.

Compositional Unity

The three kinds of unity are:

Compositional, Conceptual, Gestault

Disparate visual elements can be linked together with a common idea. This is ________ unity.

Conceptual

In The Funeral of St. Bonaventure, the artist used the principle of ________ to create emphasis and focal point.

Contrast

The Russian artist Marc Chagall depicted the mythical character Icarus with bright colors on a white background in order to ________.

Draw attention to icarus

Any of the ________ of art can help focus our interest on specific areas of a work of art.

Elements

The area covered by a pattern is called the ________.

Field

In two-dimensional art, this is the area in which an artist creates their work.

Format

This proportional system uses a ratio of 1:1.618.

Golden Section

The ancient Greek sculptor who created the bronze known as Poseidon (or Zeus) used this part of the body as a standard unit for proportional measurement in the work.

Head

This type of scale is common in the relief sculpture of ancient Egypt, where it was used to indicate social importance.

Hierarchial

The story of Vishnu dreaming the universe, as depicted in an Indian relief carving (1.6.9), is derived from the ________ religion.

Hindu

The seventeenth-century huqqa base (1.9.3) was created by an Islamic artist, or artists, in ________.

India

An artist might use a small scale for a portrait of a lover because it implies ________.

Intimacy

The rhythmic movement of the cattle and the plowmen in Plowing in the Nivernais: The Dressing of the Vines suggests struggle and the natural ebb and flow of nature by using ________ rhythm.

Irregular

Variety can ________ a design.

Ivigorate

What does the cross on Velázquez's tunic in Las Meninas signify?

Member of the order of Santiago

The kind of scale used for objects that appear larger than they are in real life is called ________ scale.

Monumental

The size relationships between parts of an object, or its ________, affects how a viewer will interpret it.

Proportions

________ balance is achieved when all elements in a work of art are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom.

Radical

In his work The School of Athens, this Renaissance artist created figures using the ideal human proportions developed by the ancient Greeks.

Raphael

When Robert Rauschenberg, in his work Monogram, chose to use a variety of non-traditional art materials and techniques instead of those accepted by the art world, he made a conscious effort to ________ the established art world.

Rebel against

The Taj Mahal was commissioned by the grieving ________ as a memorial to his third and beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal.

Shah Jahan

The opposite of emphasis is ________.

Subordination

This symmetrical Chinese motif appears in art as a monster that is made from many other designs.

T'oah T'ieh

Agnes Martin created Starlight so that there was no dominant area in the composition. This decision was partly influenced by her interest in Eastern philosophy, especially ________.

Taoism

Romare Bearden depicted a hectic street scene in his work The Dove. He created a sense of unity and stability in the busy composition with an implied ________ shape.

Triagular

What element describes the imposition of order and harmony on a design?

Unity

The atmosphere of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, created by the lack of people on the street, the absence of street lights, and the somber mood of the customers in the diner, is one of ________.

loneliness

The seventeenth-century pashmina carpet from northern India (1.9.4) uses repeated, stylized flowers as ________ to create a strong, unified design.

motifs

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its ________.

proportions

Sumerian votive figures were used as:

religious purposes to please there gods

Memento mori refers to:

symbols used to represent that someday we all die, symbols of death (Reminder of Death)